Simone de Beauvoir 1949
The Second Sex
Source: The Second Sex, 1949, translated by H M Parshley, Penguin 1972;
Written: in French and first published as Le Deuxième Sexe, in 1949;
First Published in English: by Jonathan Cape in 1953;
Transcribed: by Andy Blunden for the Value_of_Knowledge website, 1998;
Proofread: from the Penguin edition by Andy Blunden, February 2005.
Introduction
Chapter One, Biology
Chapter Two, Psychology
Chapter Three, History
from Part II, on the Master-Slave Relation
Conclusion
On the publication of The Second Sex, 1963
The Second Sex, 25 years on, 1976 interview
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